To amortize a loan, use the table above as an example: 1  Note your starting loan balance: $20,000. 2  Figure out the payment (calculation shown on this page): $377.42. 3  Figure out the interest charge for each period â usually monthly (calculation shown on this page): $83.33 in the first month.
$104.3 million less in dividend payments after buying back shares. Apple now has 861.74 million shares outstanding, a significant drop from just one quarter ago when it had 892.55 million outstanding shares. The company's stock buyback program acquired 31.7 million shares in the March quarter, and will retire them.
Apple stock has soared 123 percent from the launch of the iPod in 2001 to the most recent period. Prior to the end of 2001, Apple stock was stuck trading around $1.50 per share (except for a short blip in 2000 when shares rose to $5.00 before falling again).